Errands and Airports

Tuesday, January 18^th, 2011

Athens, Greece

     Today Jamie and I were busy, busy, busy! We took the metro (we are getting absolutely excellent at navigating the bus and metro systems) to Syntagma Square where we found everything we needed. We purchased twenty-five lanyards so we can look more official at the airport and some ID tags for the actors; quick and easy. Then we were directed to a Photopopia, or a copy store, where we finally accomplished our most daunting task: getting everyone a copy of the new script. We had tampered with making a few copies a day at the library, but we were quickly eating the library out of paper. The copy center turned out to be especially helpful and professional. Not only did they print out over 800 copies for less than thirty Euros, but they also hole-punched and rubber banded them for free!

     Then it was back to the metro to scout out the airport. It took a new metro ticket and more time than we would have liked, but when we got there we soon discovered no coke machine. I brought a flip camera Arnold gave me at the beginning of the program to capture any behind the scenes moments and video recorded the parts of the airport we were allowed in. I’m not sure if this was allowed or not but I was pretty sneaky about recording, hence why most of the footage is of the ceiling and not the actual airport...whoopsies. We found an absolutely perfect spot for a help/information desk for Nancy that was unoccupied; I just hope we can get permission to use it.

     I also emailed the coca-cola agent again in regards to the copy-right release permission form. As soon as the film is finished, we have to give them the scenes that Coke appears in so they can approve them, and then they’ll sign the release. Group dinner and a movie provided more bonding time and I think some traditions are starting. Then another shot-list meeting with Taso and the crew where we decided to shoot scenes 1 (George’s apartment), 56 (Nancy’s apartment), and 6 (George and the Dungeon).  For the dungeon scene there was lots of ingenuity: Mitch was very creative and helpful with the swinging light, the videographers switched positions, and it was just an all around inventive, group collaborative scene. So far so good! 

The busy bee, that's me!

Susie Ellen